Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.89 Severity: wishlist It happened multiple times that I have been annoyed by a NEWS.Debian saying that some perl library installed on my system got some backwards incompatible change. I have that perl library as a dependency of something else and I don't care about this change. I assume the package I care about has been fixed to work with that version since the dependencies allow the update.
Thus I would like apt-listchanges to not display this message. I'm not sure what is the best approach but there are multiple ways to deal with this: - by showing messages only from packages which are marked as manually installed (apt-mark showmanual) but this might be a bit too restrictive this should be extended to include (first-level) dependencies of manually installed metapackages as well (Section: metapackages) - by hiding messages of library packages (Section: libs, perl, ruby, python, etc) which have been automatically installed (apt-mark showauto). Whatever you decide in the end, I believe this feature should be enabled by default. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 1.2.11 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii debianutils 4.7 ii python-apt 1.1.0~beta2 pn python:any <none> ii ucf 3.0036 apt-listchanges recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 50.0.2661.94-1 ii eterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.9.6-4 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.1.1esr-1 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.20.1-2 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.1.0-3 ii python-glade2 2.24.0-4 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 ii terminator [x-terminal-emulator] 0.98-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-27 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 324-2 -- debconf information excluded
